Cliff Booth

An industrial real estate visionary who predicted the future popularity of cold storage, Booth was also one of the first investors to assemble a significant portfolio of flex industrial properties in the U.S. Booth relocated from Montreal to Dallas in 1979 and founded Westmount Realty Capital shortly after. The company specializes in acquiring and repositioning infill, multi-tenant light industrial properties. 

Under his leadership, the firm has grown from a local outfit to a company with a national presence with investments spanning the Midwest, Southwest, Southeast and Western regions.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Booth led a group that assembled close to 10 million square feet of properties across the U.S. He was also a pioneering investor in office and flex industrial space in and around Downtown Dallas in the 1990s. He’s been investing in cold storage since the 1990s — long before the asset class became a critical element of the supply chain. One of Booth’s biggest projects was the recapitalization of a 6.1 million-square-foot industrial portfolio in Chicago and Milwaukee in Jan. 2022. 

— Jess Hardin